“…Repair is pervasive, highly systematic, and measurable in conversation (Healey, Colman, & Thirlwell, ). The current focus on quantifying repair, in order to link it with patient outcomes, necessarily involves abstracting it from the fine‐grained practices and actions involved in self‐repair and other‐repair, on which there is a substantial literature (Drew, ; Drew, Walker, & Ogden, ; Hayashi, Raymond, & Sidnell, ; Kendrick, ; Lerner & Kitzinger, ; Schegloff, ).…”